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Show WATCH OUT FOR SHORT CIRCUIT May Rum - Battery ; Frequent Fre-quent Visits to Service Station Mean Profit. -A ahorLreult wlllSreln a battery of all its power In a few houre." declares de-clares C M. McDonald, superintendent of the aervlce atatlon department of the Intermountaln Electric company. 41 East Fourth South street. -Btsrvlng f the battery may point to a ehort circuit, especially IT In checking up you find that you are run-nine- the machine sufficiently to allow a good proportion of energy to be returned re-turned to the battery. -Short circuits are usually found in the wiring syeteme outside of the battery bat-tery and If a caaual teat does not reveal re-veal the trouble It la always beat to have the evstem carefully gone over by an expert." Mr. McDonald declare the battery ia the heart of all automobile trouble and that In testing hia battaav. if a motorist finds one cell of two cells that show the normal readme, and If the third ahowa a low readlnit. the entire battery ia In poor condition. The fact that two oella ahow a higher reading than tha third la merely accidental." says Mr. McDonald. "At the bottom of the whole thing la this: The measure of energy In the discharged cell Is probably the meas-'lira meas-'lira iff T"--r of be whole battery win such a case the battery should be recharged re-charged at once at the battery aervlce station. "If you find that your battery haa not energy enough to turn over the starting motor, tha first thing you do naturally Is to teet M with yoor hydrometer. hydro-meter. Nine timee out of ten you will find that the trouble is starving. The hydrometer will Infallibly uncover this condition for Instead of registering 1 110 to ISM. aa It would If the battery were fullv charged. It will register below be-low 1200."- Mr. McDonald reports an extremely busy week In the service department of the Intermountaln company, and states that motorists all over the city are declaring that the Saturday night and Sunday morning houre now maintained main-tained by the eompany in thie depart -mentis re proving a boon to them. In many cases the motorist Is unable to have his car fixed during the week, and to meet these conditions the Inter-mountain Inter-mountain Electric company's service stations are now kept open nntn o'clock on Saturday nights and from t to t o'clock Sunday mornings. |